Sound
This very old family of instruments is struck, shaken, and scraped to create sound.
This term for someone who writes music sounds like it should be the opposite of the role earthworms play in the soil.
What is a composer?
A series of notes played in an order that is memorable and recognizable as a separate unit
What is melody?
A regular, repeating pulse that forms a basic measurement of time in music. You can tap your foot to this, and your heart also has one.
What is a beat?
This musical form alternates between verses and choruses.
What is verse-chorus form?
A group of two performers is called this, a word that comes from the Latin word for two.
What is a duet?
A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.
What is genre?
Two or more notes heard at the same time.
What is harmony?
The tempo of a song is measured in beats per this, or BPM.
What is a minute?
This musical form, which has an A section and a B section, shares a name with the system of 1s and 0s used in computers.
What is binary?
This Italian word for “soft” is both a descriptor of musical dynamics and the name of an instrument with black and white keys.
What is piano?
This genre of music, featuring a strong beat, and often instruments such as electric guitar, keyboard, bass, and set, shares its name with the naturally occurring and coherent aggregate of one or more minerals.
What is rock?
The musical part which provides the rhythmic and/or harmonic support for the melody or main themes of a song or instrumental piece, such as a piano part that plays with a singer.
What is accompaniment?
The term for both a regularly recurring grouping of beats into measures in music AND a unit of measurement in the metric system.
What is meter?
A smaller section of music within a larger work like a symphony is called this, which sounds like something you have to do in PE.
What is movement?
This musical term for how high or low a sound is shares a name with both the sticky stuff on a pine tree and the way in which a ball is thrown to the batter in baseball.
What is pitch?
This era of music, from approximately 1750 to 1820, featured composers such as Mozart and Haydn.
What is Classical?
A chord made up of three tones.
What is a triad?
This note or rest is takes one beat in 4/4 time, which ends up being one fourth of the measure.
What is a quarter?
This kind of music can be different every time because it has an element of randomness or luck.
What is chance music?
Sound waves are shaped like this mathematical function, which is also the ratio in a right triangle of the side opposite a given angle to the hypotenuse.
What is sine?
This iconic boy band arrived in the US about 11 weeks after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
Who are The Beatles?
This six note scale featuring the notes of the minor pentatonic scale plus a flattened fifth, shares its name with a color and gives its name to a musical genre and form.
What is Blues?
A very common meter in music groups 4 quarter notes into each measure, which is called 4/4 time or this.
What is common time?
This musical form gets its name from a French word meaning "a little round" because it keeps coming back around to the same musical idea: A B A C A D A...
What is a round?